Popcorn for Breakfast

Hollywood is at war! It’s the Writers vs. the Studios as the WGA Writers’ Strike rages on and no one knows when it will end. Now that we are a few weeks into the strike and the sticking points have become clear, we decided to spend time discussing those demands from both sides and what it might mean for the duration of the strike. In addition to that, this past week brought HUGE casting news for b...

The end of an era. For better or worse, that’s exactly what Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 represents. James Gunn is, of course, exiting the MCU for an even cushier gig at the newly-renamed DC Studios. So, what does this mean for the Guardians? Who would remain from the Guardians after this film? Given that this is a spoiler-free Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 review, we can’t answer those questio...

The biggest AppleTV+ original movie premiere ever belongs to the subject of this week’s review, Ghosted. Ghosted stars Ana de Armas and Chris Evans as a one-time fling turns into an international espionage plot. In our spoiler-free Ghosted review, we discuss the balance between RomCom and Spy Action elements, the performances from our Ultra A-List leads, and much more. So join us to find out if Gh...

CinemaCon 2023 is here! And while this convention doesn’t carry all the glitz and glamour of fan-oriented cons, it provides something altogether more interesting: a look at how major studios sell to cinema owners across the country. In the past few years, this has taken the form of lavish promises of respecting the theatrical window, waiting to put movies on streaming, and betting big on the retur...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…. We used to get Star Wars movies. Now we just get shows and everyone has been waiting for Lucasfilm to end its box office hiatus and return to the movies. The wait is over! At Star Wars celebration, 3 new Star Wars films were announced as well as their directors, and we are here to break it all down. In this addition of What’s Poppin’, we discuss the Sta...

LETS-A-GO! After 30 years, The Super Mario Bros. have returned to the silver screen and this time in animated form! Nintendo has teamed up with Illumination to put their best foot forward in terms of delivering the most accurate representation of Mario possible. But did they succeed? We all know there was a ton of chatter about the voices, the look of the characters, the plot, etc. But none of tha...

It’s a great time to be a nerd! Thanks to Stranger Things, Dungeons & Dragons is now cool and when things become cool, you know what happens: studio executives start salivating. Which raises this question about the newly-released Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves film: is it a blind money grab with a hodgepodge cast headlined by A-list stud Chris Pine? Or is it an opportunistic and thought...

Sequels, Prequels, Remakes, Reboots, Adaptations, Reimaginings, and Trailers. SO MANY TRAILERS. We have no idea what happened at the end of March and early April, but for some reason, the major studios decided to take turns throwing haymakers at each other in the form of massive movie and TV news stories. We’ve got brand new trailers to react to from some of the biggest potential blockbusters of t...

Very few action franchises have achieved the kind of consistent excellence that the John Wick Franchise has over the first 3 films. But, with each sequel, there is always the chance of a dud. Stakes get higher, budgets get bigger, plots get more complicated, and everything becomes harder to balance. Which brings us here, to our John Wick Chapter 4 Review. In our spoiler free John Wick 4 review, we...

The Shazamily is back and better than ever? Well, that is for each person to decide on their own. In our spoiler-free Shazam! Fury of the Gods review, however, we’ll give our take on that question among others. After all, this is Shazam 2 and sequels always come with lots of storylines and questions to dig into. Not to mention, this movie exists in the now nebulous DC Studios vortex somewhere betw...

Okay, let’s get weird. This week’s headlines aren’t the barnburners we usually focus on in What’s Poppin’, but each one is interesting by its own merit. After all, any time the name Denzel Washington appears on a cast list, we are there! Also, an under-the-radar move at Marvel Studios Monday may be an indicator of what’s going on behind the scenes at the house of mouse. We’ve also got new details...

Let’s (ghost)face it. We were all pretty much in the same place before this movie came out. Scream 6? In New York? How much longer can they really keep this going? These are fair questions! But the only way to learn the answers is to see the movie, for better or worse. So, that’s what we did! In our Scream VI review, we discuss whether they’ve successfully sequeled the re-quel or not, how it felt...

The 95th Oscars are officially in the rearview so we are going to use this opportunity to close the book on the Oscars by giving our opinions on the show, the winners, the loasers, and whether or not the Academy got it right. After that, we turn our attention to the current year in film and those soon to come. Some HUGE news stories dropped this week including Quentin Tarantino’s 10th (and likely...

IT’S OSCAR WEEK!!! It has all built up to this. We watched hundreds of movies this past year and reviewed many of them right here on Popcorn for Breakfast. But now, it is time for Hollywood’s biggest night, the 95th Academy Awards. As with any Oscars show, there are so many storylines and tons of hotly-contested categories. In our Oscars 2023 Preview, we break down all the biggest awards, who shou...

Since it burst onto the scene in 2015, the Creed franchise has cemented itself as one of the best cases for legacy sequels (or “re-quels”) to date. 8 years later, we’ve arrived at Creed III. All the trailers and promotional materials for this film present it as the first Creed film to break free of the Rocky franchise and, for better or worse, chart its own path. From the addition of the burgeonin...

Cocaine. Not usually something to joke about. But a black bear eating/snorting multiple kilos of cocaine and then going on a killing spree? You may be on to something. The subject of this week’s review is Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear. This film presents itself as a self-aware, horror-comedy B movie with a premise the speaks for itself. But whether it lives up to the hype and its own premise or no...

Our next installment in our Best Picture Nominee Review series is here! The subject of this week’s review is The Banshees of Inisherin, a film that is nominated for a whopping 9 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and 4 Acting Nominations. Writer-Director Martin McDonagh has a sterling portfolio of films and plays and The Banshees of Inisherin finds him...

We’ve been to the Quantum Realm and back, but now it is time to go even deeper. In this episode of Popcorn for Breakfast, we shed the spoiler alerts and go all in on an Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Deep Dive. How does the Quantumania ending set up the future of the MCU? What about the mid-credits and post-credits scenes? What is next for Kang? Who is Kang? All of those questions and many more...

Join us on a journey back to the Quantum Realm! One of the most anticipated movies of the year is here, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. And not only is it one of the most anticipated films but it is also one of the most speculated-about films in recent memory. It was announced all the way back in 2020 that Jonathan Majors was cast as Kang for this film and, since then, it has been nothing but r...

What will Toy Story 5 be about? Will Frozen 3 neatly round out the trilogy? Were the best commercials at the Super Bowl the latest Marvel and DC Trailers? What’s going on with the long awaited I Am Legend sequel?   These are the questions we’ve been pondering too. Join us as we discuss…   The biggest trailers from the Super Bowl - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Fast X, and The Flash [05:31] Netfl...

Knock Knock. Who’s there? M. Night Shyamalan. There’s no punchline to that joke. I just wanted to say the knock-knock part so indulge me. This week, we are reviewing M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin starring Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, and many others. In our Knock at the Cabin Review, we discuss all the acting performances, the effectiveness of the premise, and the ending...

After weeks of award season talk followed by last week’s big DCU discussion, we are finally back to discussing good, old-fashioned movie and tv news. It’s a bit refreshing if we are being honest. This week featured a potpourri of various stories from the strange, like AMC’s plan to flex ticket pricing based on seating location, to the magnificent, like Viola Davis’ newly-minted EGOT status. We’ll...

Our next Best Picture nominee review features Todd Field’s Tár. It is nominated for 6 Academy Awards including Directing, Film Editing, Cinematography, Original Screenplay, Best Picture, and Best Actress in a Leading Role for Cate Blanchett’s performance which has her positioned as the presumptive favorite. In our Tar Review, we discuss the every aspect of this film and give our opinion on if it i...

A new day is dawning at DC! At long last, we are now privy to (at least part of) James Gunn’s master plan at the newly-minted DC Studios. In this episode, we discuss all of the new ground rules James Gunn and Peter Safran have put in place for their storytelling universe, the DCU, as well as all of the new projects included in Chapter 1 of the DCU titled Gods and Monsters. This lineup includes Cre...

It’s all led up to this! The Oscar Nominations 2023 are here in advance of the 95th Academy Awards on March 12th. We now know which films, performances, and technical achievements have been selected as the best of the best from the past year and we have…. Thoughts! In this episode, we’ll breakdown all the big Oscar categories and how well the academy did selecting nominees. We’ll also discuss the...